The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1887-08-23
FOREIGN NEWS.

10 Bibles sofa lately IN LOlluOu
for krices Of from $40 to e2, 500.
An international exhibition is TO
be held at Glasgow next summer.
Van electric kettle has been made
in Berlin, and water will boil in it
in fifteen minutes.
a Birmingham church has female
surpliced choristers. They wear
tastefully designed SUPPLIES of
Scotch lawn and violet caps.
Lord Lucan, who has been made
a Field Marshal, is eighty-seven
years old, and has served in the
British Army seventy-one years.
Some statistician has figured out
that a 1OO-ton gun costs England
$1,000 a ton, and every discharge
represents $3.50 worth of powder
and shot.
a pleasant device for ornamental
ton at French garden party was a
Runtain, at the base of which were
blocks of ice mingled with ferns
and flowers.
Steel-framed cabs are now being
manufactured in England, with a
view to ightness and greater dura-
bility than if wood were used for
the purpose.
Capoui, the French tenor, was
fEad 2O0f and imprisoned twenty
fds- hours, in Paris, for attempting
to Assault a critic who had offended
him.
a drought prevails all over Europe
and there Is much injury to crops.
The water supply Of the great cities
is seriously affected, being tainted
Sad very scapty.
Herr Won Schumacher. a Catholic
member of the Prussian House OF
Lords. has been communicated
by the Bishop of Cologne for send
ing a challenge for a duel.
Several valuable Highland estates
were offered at auction in London a
short time ago, but not half their
former value could be obtained and
some Of them were withdrawn.
Men over s feet in height are a
rare sight in the English militia,
the Court Journal says, and there are
comparatively few in it that tall.
None in every four is less than feet
5 inches.
a woman at Chester, England,
who was arrested for throwing a
brick through a shop-window, said
she did it for the purpose Of letting
her husband know her address
through the press.
The official organ of the Munich
Volapuk ("univerSal language")
Club is sending out invitations for a
second VoIapuk Congress, 10 be held
in that city on the 9th, eth, Sth and
9th days of August next
A Parliamentary return recently
Issue shows that in the quarter
enS Il 31st March 5,o42 persons were
evieted in Ireland for non-payment
Of rent. of whom 223 were re-admit-
ted as tenants, and 3,32S as care
takers.
A new German dialect has been
discovered in Kaiser Williams land.
The natives speak German but T
becomes B, while II and F are totally
dropped Moltke, therefore, be-
comes NIotsei, and Kaiser Wilhelm,
Kailsar Weilleim.
The largest tuning-fork probably
ever made anywhere is the one re-
Gently manufactured at Hanau for
TIE Physiological Institute at Leipsic.
1t weighs over twenty-seven kilos,
and gives fourteen double oscilIa-
tons 4 second.
a very weak Government, and an
increasingly strong opposition, is
the conspicuous development in Eng
lish politics. Quite a reverse it is
in France Ministry getting
stronger and an opposition losing
strength day by day.
There are seven American girls
studying at Newman College, Eng
land. They say that the social
opportunities are well appreciated,
though tea-drinking, TO the average
American taste, is rather too prom
ingn4 feature of English festivities.
= A recent election in Edinburgh,
which ELECTED the largest number
Of Eotes ever obtained from the